Investigation of the Emotional Intelligence Levels of University Students Working Voluntarily in Special Olympics

Okan Burçak ÇELİK

doi:https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2020.02.007

Article Details

Investigation of the Emotional Intelligence Levels of University Students Working Voluntarily in Special Olympics

Authors:

Okan Burçak ÇELİK

Publisher:

Mustafa ÖZGENEL

Journal:

International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies 2020 Vol.7 Issue 2, pp.79-84

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000469733

Frequency:

Monthly

pISSN:

2148-9378

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2020.02.007

Abstract:

 

The aim of this study was to investigate of the emotional intelligence levels of university students working voluntarily in Special Olympics. The research was designed with a descriptive survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. A total of 256 university students participated in the study. 135 students voluntarily worked in Special Olympic. 121 students didn’t serve in Special Olympic. The emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Chan  2004  and used as Turkish by Aslan and Özata  2008  was employed as a data collection tool in the study. It was determined that the research data showed normal distribution. Then, it was decided that the parametric test was used. Independent samples T-test was preferred to compare the emotional intelligence levels of working voluntarily and non-working students in Special Olympics. Likewise, a t-test was used to investigate the emotional intelligence of volunteers according to gender. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the scores of working voluntarily students were statistically higher in the emotional appraisal, positive regulation, empathic sensitivity, positive utilization sub-dimensions and general emotional intelligence scores than the non-working students in the organization. But, according to the gender variable, there was no statistically significant difference between the participants in both sub-dimensions and the whole scale. According to these results, it can be said that emotional intelligence levels of individuals who serve voluntarily in organizations for disabled people, like Special Olympics, were higher. Moreover, it can be deduced that there is no difference according to gender in the emotional intelligence levels of the participants working voluntarily in Special Olympics.

Article Details

Investigation of the Emotional Intelligence Levels of University Students Working Voluntarily in Special Olympics

Authors: Okan Burçak ÇELİK

Publisher: Mustafa ÖZGENEL

Journal: International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies 2020 Vol.7 Issue 2, pp.79-84

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/2020

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000469733

Frequency: Monthly

pISSN: 2148-9378

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2020.02.007

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Authors:

Okan Burçak ÇELİK

Publisher:

Mustafa ÖZGENEL

Journal:

International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies 2020 Vol.7 Issue 2, pp.79-84

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000469733

Frequency:

Monthly

pISSN:

2148-9378

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2020.02.007